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Jan 1, 1214
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar. He is often given credit, mainly starting in the 19th century, as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method. A lot of his experimental knowledge was obtained from books, in the scholastic tradition. Click Here For More Information -
Jan 1, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
Nicolas Copernicus is said to be the founder of modern astronomy. In 1530, he gave to the world his great work "De Revolutionibus," which ststed that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the sun once yearly which was a fantastic concept for the times. <a href='http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm' >Click Here For More Information -
Dec 31, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
The major developments that Vesalius made in medical theory came as a result of his work in Padua. There he conducted his own dissections: unheard of at the time, and made detailed notes and drawings. His book ‘The fabric of the Human body’ published in 153 was a comprehensive study of the human body. Click Here For More Information -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or the scientific method. Click Here For More Information -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. He was a professor of astronomy at the University of Pisa. Galileo's support for the heliocentric theory got him into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. In 1633 the Inquisition convicted him of heresy and forced him to withdraw his support of Copernicus. Click Here For More Information -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was one of the most important scientist in the field of astronomy. He was the founder of "celestial mechanics." He was the first to explain planetary motion. He published "Stereometrica Doliorum" which formed the basis of integral calculus, and he also made important advances in geometry. Click Here For More Information -
Apr 1, 1578
William Harvey
Harvey was an English physician. He was the first to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart. Click Here For More Information -
René Descartes
Click Here For More InformationDescartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer. His "Meditations on First Philosophy" continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. The Cartesian coordinate system -allowing algebraic equations to be expressed as geometric shapes in a two-dimensional coordinate system - was named after him. -
Robert Boyle
Boyle was an Irish natural philosopher (chemist, physicist, and inventor). He is noted for his work in physics and chemistry. He is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist. His work "The Sceptical Chymist" is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. [Click Here For More Information](http:/http://www.crystalinks.com/boyle.html/) -
Isaac Newton
Newton’s first major public scientific achievement was the invention, design and construction of a reflecting telescope. In Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Click Here For More Information
